Dairy farmers are bracing themselves for still more falls in product prices at tomorrow's Global Dairy Trade auction.

Asia's biggest economy looks to limit manufacturers to three labels and impose stricter safety procedures.

Synlait Milk has revised its forecast milk price for the 2015 / 2016 season from $5.00 per kilogram to $4.20.

Banks say more heavily indebted New Zealand dairy farmers will be asked to sell up as non-performing loans increase.

Dairy Farms NZ - likely to list on the NZ stock exchange, has been given permission to buy up South Island farms.

Leading international credit rating agency has downgraded its outlook for New Zealand's economy.

Wool prices rose at the first auction following the Christmas and New Year holiday period, helped by the lower New Zealand dollar.

El Nino is technically past its peak, but the true impact of the weather pattern looks likely to play out over the next few months.

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Grabbing a bottle of milk from the supermarket was once a simple task.

Fonterra has maintained milk price at $4.60 per kilo, but scrapped a farmer support scheme.

Pressure is mounting on Fonterra to cut its farmgate milk price forecast at this week's board meeting, but it's looking like a close call.

Animal welfare group SAFE placed a graphic advertisement to shame NZ's dairy industry in the Guardian newspaper.

China is taking steps to genetically engineer its own food supply rather than growing it the boring old traditional way.

WATCH: Waikato farmer's impassioned defence of his fellow farmers following an expose on the "dark side of the farming industry".

MPI says an investigation into the alleged mistreatment of bobby calves had begun before news broke.

Investigator whose shocking video exposes cruelty in New Zealand's dairy industry says he was tipped off by concerned farmers.

The August-September price bubble has popped, according to a dairy broker.

In 2014/15, dairy companies processed 21.3 billion litres of milk containing 1.89 billion kilograms of milksolids.

There's some good news from the dairy sector today, with Fonterra saying its financial performance is improving.

Consumer and food service came in at $408 million, up 216 per cent on the previous year's.

Reserve Bank has asked the country's five biggest rural lenders to conduct a "stress test" of their exposure to dairy farm debt, and had encouraged them to set aside provisions .

Farming is largely a long term intergenerational business. But what could that future look like?

New Zealand has about 720,000ha of land under irrigation, but about half that again could be sustainably irrigated by 2025, an industry body says.

Any chance of an upgrade in Fonterra's farmer payout became more remote today after a big drop in world dairy prices.

Farmers might have to pay for their emissions like everyone else under a revision of the Government's main climate change policy.

Silver Fern Farms shareholders have voted strongly in favour of a 50/50 joint venture with China's Shanghai Maling Aquarius

Food researchers have been granted $10.9 million under a new Government scheme designed to encourage scientific brilliance and boost exports.